=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.31 retrieving revision 1.34 diff -u -p -r1.31 -r1.34 --- mandoc/NEWS 2018/08/01 15:40:17 1.31 +++ mandoc/NEWS 2019/03/10 09:32:00 1.34 @@ -1,10 +1,84 @@ -$Id: NEWS,v 1.31 2018/08/01 15:40:17 schwarze Exp $ +$Id: NEWS,v 1.34 2019/03/10 09:32:00 schwarze Exp $ This file lists the most important changes in the mandoc.bsd.lv distribution. -Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August XXX, 2018 +Changes in version 1.14.5, released on March 10, 2019 --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES --- + * apropos(1): improve POSIX compliance by accepting case-insensitive + extended regular expressions by default + * new -O tag[=term] output option (open a page at the definition of a term) + * tbl(7) -T html: spanning and horizontal and vertical alignment of cells + * tbl(7) -T html: draw lines on the edges of table cells + * tbl(7) -T utf8: render lines with the Unicode box drawing characters + * mandoc is now able to handle the manual pages of the groff package. + --- MINOR NEW FEATURES --- + * -T html: new option -O toc (table of contents) + * -T html: second argument to -O man to support local and remote links + * mdoc(7) .Bd -centered now fills the text contained in it + * man-ext .SY and .YS macros (synopsis block) + * man-ext .TQ macro (tagged paragraph without vertical space before it) + * tbl(7) \& explicit alignment indicator + * roff(7) .shift, .while, and .return requests + * roff(7) .char request (output glyph definition) + * roff(7) .nop request (no operation) + * roff(7) .ft request: handle the CB, CI, and CR fonts + * roff(7) .if c conditional (character available) + * roff(7) \\$@ escape sequence (insert all macro arguments, quoted) + * roff(7) \*(.T predefined string (interpolate output device name) + * roff(7) \[charNNN] escape sequence (for printable ASCII characters) + * roff(7) \# escape sequence (line continuation with comment) + --- HTML OUTPUT SYNTAX CORRECTIONS --- + * Render .br and \p as
, not as an empty
. + * Render .Pp and .PP as

and automatically close it when needed. + * Stop writing empty list elements for non-compact .Bl -tag lists. + * Do not put

inside if .UR or .MT contain .PP. + * Implement tooltips purely in CSS rather than abusing title= attributes. + --- MINOR FUNCTIONAL IMPROVEMENTS --- + * many improvements to the handling of fill and no-fill mode + * tbl(7): better column widths in the presence of horizontal spans + * several minor improvements to escape sequence handling + * several minor improvements to manual font handling + * portability: autodetect need for _GNU_SOURCE or _OPENBSD_SOURCE + * portability: autodetect whether less(1) supports the -T option + * large numbers of bugfixes of diverse kinds + --- STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS --- + * Disentangle eqn(7) and tbl(7) from other parser header files, + and clean up some parser data structures. + * Substantially simplify error and warning message infrastructure. + --- THANKS TO --- + * John Gardner for crucial help implementing tooltips in CSS. + * Alexander Bluhm, Raphael Graf, Ted Unangst (OpenBSD) + and Daniel Sabogal (Alpine Linux) for patches. + * Anthony Bentley and Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for documentation patches, + suggesting new features, bug reports, and useful discussions. + * Kyle Evans and Baptiste Daroussin (FreeBSD) for minor patches. + * Pali Rohar for suggesting multiple new features and for reporting + several bugs and missing features. + * Klemens Nanni (OpenBSD) for suggesting multiple new features. + * Kristaps Dzonsons (bsd.lv), Marc Espie (OpenBSD), Adam Kalisz, + and Laura Morales for suggesting new features. + * Wolfram Schneider and Yuri Pankov (FreeBSD) for reporting missing features. + * Edward Tomasz Napierala (FreeBSD) for suggesting a feature improvement. + * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) and Sevan Janiyan (SmartOS) + for bug reports and release testing. + * Bryan Steele, Janne Johansson, Kurt Mosiejczuk, Mike Belopuhov, Theo + Buehler, Todd Miller (OpenBSD), Andreas Gustafsson, Christos Zoulas, + Robert Elz (NetBSD), Kurt Jaeger (FreeBSD), Fabio Scotoni, Kelvin + Sherlock, Mark Harris, Orestis Ioannou, Raf Czlonka, and Sean Farrell + for bug reports. + * Ulrich Spoerlein (FreeBSD), Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux), + Matej Cepl (openSUSE), and Jan Stary (MacOS X) for release testing. + * Brian Callahan and Stuart Henderson (OpenBSD) for help + with the OpenBSD groff port. + * Bertrand Garrigues, Branden Robinson, Ralph Corderoy, and Werner + Lemberg (GNU troff) for checking groff patches. + * Scott Cheloha, Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) + and Natanael Copa (Alpine Linux) for useful discussions. + +Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August 8, 2018 + + --- MAJOR NEW FEATURES --- * In ASCII output, render mathematical symbols and greek letters as transliterations conveying the characters' meanings rather than trying to imitate their shape. Consequently, such characters @@ -59,15 +133,16 @@ Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August XXX, 201 * Colin Watson (man-db) for feedback on man-db semantics. * Jason McIntyre (OpenBSD) for lots of feedback and suggestions on diagnostic messages and on the documentation. - * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for suggesting two new style messages, - one new feature, and for two bug reports. + * Thomas Klausner (NetBSD) for suggesting two new style messages + and one new feature, for two bug reports, and for release testing. * Leah Neukirchen (Void Linux) for suggesting a new style message, five bug reports, and release testing. * Anthony Bentley (OpenBSD) for reporting multiple bugs and missing features. * Paul Irofti (OpenBSD) and Nate Bargmann for suggesting new features. - * Christian Weisgerber, Jonathan Gray, Stuart Henderson, Ted Unangst - (OpenBSD), Takeshi Nakayama (NetBSD), Michael Stapelberg (Debian), + * Michael Stapelberg (Debian) for bug reports and release testing. + * Christian Weisgerber, Jonathan Gray, Stuart Henderson, + Ted Unangst (OpenBSD), Takeshi Nakayama (NetBSD), Anton Lazarov, Jakub Klinkovsky, Jan Stary, Jesper Wallin, Will Backmam, and Wolfgang Mueller for bug reports. * Sevan Janiyan (NetBSD) for additions to lib.in. @@ -76,6 +151,7 @@ Changes in version 1.14.4, released on August XXX, 201 for documentation improvements. * Laura Morales and Raf Czlonka for questions resulting in better documentation. + * Yuri Pankov (illumos) for release testing. Changes in version 1.14.3, released on August 5, 2017